Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again .
2 Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’
3 Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat .
4 And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible .
5 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
6 And scared again , like I 'd felt when I 'd woken before .
7 It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days .
8 The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels .
9 Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I .
10 But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) .
11 My appointments and everything I 'd got before I came along and erm he went on to tell me , if company .
12 Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton .
13 I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her .
14 I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission .
15 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
16 I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary !
17 ‘ And what would I have found if I had ?
18 I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another .
19 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
20 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
21 It worried me that I had reacted as I had .
22 Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her .
23 I could n't remember the make of car I drove , how my girlfriend looked naked , what I had done before I got my PI licence , what shape my bathroom was , my parents ' names .
24 ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell .
25 I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that .
26 The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres .
27 They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner .
28 I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time .
29 And as I say , I was able to get in touch with me brother and fix this little shop up there and er no I 've said that I 've er , I 've er
30 I 'll call for a vote for quite clear I am going to stick to what I 've said that I consider that the amendment has been proposed it can be if it 's to be accepted it can then be accepted by the Committee as a whole
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